Clay Aiken Quotes

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

The message I'll share...is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities.

Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.

It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

Pain happens to everyone. To grow up, to fulfill your potential, to develop into what God wants you to be-this process takes support. No one succeeds alone.

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.

I'm around a lot of good people who keep me grounded and don't let me get too high above my raisings. I have some good friends who don't talk about my job, and that's nice. Those are the friends who are my favorites. That helps a lot.

As long as you're living right, then you don't have to worry about what people see.

I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.

I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.

I'm not different. I'm not different at all. The wrapping is different but the gift is still the same.

I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

I don't think that there's substantiated evidence that shows that voter fraud is such a rampant problem that we have to put in place measures that people have to pass in order to exercise that constitutional free right. Voting should be -- and is required to be -- a right that is unencumbered. That does not have tests that people must pass.... Anything put in place to restrict that right, or to make it more difficult for people to exercise it, should be outlawed, and should not be allowed.

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause?

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything.

I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it.

Every kiss is a kiss you can never get back.